Ontario Arts Council Movies

  • 1987
    Family Viewing

    Family Viewing

    Family Viewing

    5.71987HD

    An emotionally constrained view of the displacement of human feelings in our video saturated society. Van regularly visits his grandmother in a run-do...

    Family Viewing
  • 1987
    I've Heard the Mermaids Singing

    I've Heard the Mermaids Singing

    I've Heard the Mermaids Singing

    5.81987HD

    Scatterbrained Polly gets a job as a secretary in Gabrielle's art gallery. Polly aspires to be a professional photographer, and idolizes Gabrielle for...

    I've Heard the Mermaids Singing
  • 1991
    Masala

    Masala

    Masala

    61991HD

    An Indian-Canadian heroin addict becomes involved in the lives of his mother's family, watched over by the god Krishna.

    Masala
  • 2010
    Junko's Shamisen

    Junko's Shamisen

    Junko's Shamisen

    5.72010HD

    A young Japanese orphan, and her mystical friend, exact poetic justice on a malevolent samurai lord.

    Junko's Shamisen
  • 2009
    To My Son in Spain: Finnish Canadians in the Spanish Civil War

    To My Son in Spain: Finnish Canadians in the Spanish Civil War

    To My Son in Spain: Finnish Canadians in the Spanish Civil War

    02009HD

    This documentary features the story of Jules Paivio, the last living Canadian volunteer of the infamous Mackenzie-Papineau Battallion of the “Internat...

    To My Son in Spain: Finnish Canadians in the Spanish Civil War
  • 2010
    The Quarry

    The Quarry

    The Quarry

    4.52010HD

    Charlie (Ruben de Baat),a boy of twelve, creates the most personal gift for his friend best friend, Natalie (Meagan Brodie). It’s a mix tape containi...

    The Quarry
  • 2019
    It's Nothing

    It's Nothing

    It's Nothing

    02019HD

    A recent graduate is urged by an impossibly perfect woman to start digging a hole in a nearby park, setting in motion a chain of events that threaten...

    It's Nothing
  • 2023
    Demon Box

    Demon Box

    Demon Box

    02023HD

    After festival rejections, a director revises his intensely personal short film about trauma, suicide, and the Holocaust, and transforms it into a pai...

    Demon Box
  • 2003
    Urda/Bone

    Urda/Bone

    Urda/Bone

    02003HD

    Against the backdrop of a European cityscape, worlds intersect when a woman and a man on separate travels meet, or rather, collide on the screen. Thei...

    Urda/Bone
  • 1964
    Peggy's Blue Skylight

    Peggy's Blue Skylight

    Peggy's Blue Skylight

    3.71964HD

    Filmed in Joyce Wieland and Michael Snow’s loft in New York, the film covers a day of friends visiting, writing and drawing from noon of one day to da...

    Peggy's Blue Skylight
  • 2017
    Twice Upon a Time

    Twice Upon a Time

    Twice Upon a Time

    02017HD

    Twice Upon a Time is a fairy tale for all generations about a king with split personality, split time and a split screen. It is a story about dual nat...

    Twice Upon a Time
  • 2019
    Borrachero

    Borrachero

    Borrachero

    02019HD

    After a job goes wrong, a woman flees to her hometown in southern Colombia. Along the way she encounters a mysterious figure, which might be the embod...

    Borrachero
  • 1979
    Star Ways

    Star Ways

    Star Ways

    01979HD

    A young boy with his "Star Wars" comic book runs to the front window of a subway train and pretends to pilot a spaceship out of the station and into t...

    Star Ways
  • 2007
    Sleep Lines

    Sleep Lines

    Sleep Lines

    02007HD

    On a sunny afternoon between dreaming and waking a couple come together and move apart in the interior world of their home. A hand-processed black-and...

    Sleep Lines